Sperl, M.F.J., Wroblewski, A., Mueller, M., Straube, B., Mueller E.M. (accepted). Learning Dynamics of Electrophysiological Brain Signals During Human Fear Conditioning. NeuroImage IF: 5.902 Abstract Electrophysiological studies in rodents allow recording neural activity during threats with high temporal and spatial precision. Although fMRI has helped translate insights about the anatomy of underlying brain circuits to … More Paper accepted!!! Learning Dynamics of Electrophysiological Brain Signals During Human Fear Conditioning. Congratulations Matthias

The Faculty of Medicine invites applications for a Tenure Track Professorship for Computational Psychiatry (W1 Tenure Track to W2) at the Department of Psychiatry and Psychotherapy, to be filled at the earliest possible date. This professorship is funded by the Tenure Track Programme of the German Federal Government and the Federal States and is initially … More Tenure Track Professorship for Computational Psychiatry (W1 Tenure Track to W2)

He summarized and successfully defended his recent DCM studies: Wroblewski, A., He, Y., & Straube, B. (2020). Dynamic Causal Modelling suggests impaired effective connectivity in patients with schizophrenia spectrum disorders during gesture-speech integration. Schizophrenia Research, 216, 175-183 https://doi.org/https://doi.org/10.1016/j.schres.2019.12.005 Straube, B., Wroblewski, A., Jansen, A., & He, Y. (2018). The connectivity signature of co-speech gesture integration: … More Congrats to Adrian Wroblewski for his successful dissertation defense!

She nicely summarized and defended her recent studies: Ridderbusch, I. C., Yang, Y., Weber, H., Reif, A., Herterich, S., Ströhle, A., … Straube, B. (2020). Neural correlates of NOS1 ex1f-VNTR allelic variation in panic disorder and agoraphobia during fear conditioning and extinction in fMRI: NOS1 ex1f-VNTR variation and fear processing. NeuroImage: Clinical, 27(April), 1–10. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.nicl.2020.102268 … More Congrats to Isabelle Ridderbusch for her successful dissertation defense!

Straube, B., van Kemenade, B.M., Kircher, T. & Schülke, R. (2020). Transcranial Direct Current Stimulation Improves Action-Outcome Monitoring in Schizophrenia Spectrum Disorder. Submitted to Brain Communications https://academic.oup.com/braincomms/advance-article/doi/10.1093/braincomms/fcaa151/5907908 Background: Patients with schizophrenia spectrum disorder (SSD) often demonstrate impairments in action-outcome monitoring. Passivity phenomena and hallucinations, in particular, have been related to impairments of efference copy-based predictions … More Paper accepted: Transcranial Direct Current Stimulation Improves Action-Outcome Monitoring in Schizophrenia Spectrum Disorder

He, Y., Lüll, S., Muralikrishnan, R., Straube, B., & Nagels, A. (accepted). Gesture’s body orientation modulates the N400 for visual sentences primed by gestures. Human Brain Mapping … we carried out an EEG experiment presenting to participants (n=21) videos of frontal and lateral hand gestures of five-seconds (e.g., raising a hand), followed by visually presented … More Paper accepted: Gesture’s body orientation modulates the N400 for visual sentences primed by gestures. Congratulation Yifei

Good job, Paulina!!!

Suffel, A., Nagels, A., Steines, M., Kircher, T., & Straube, B. (accepted). Feeling addressed! The neural processing of social communicative cues in patients with major depression. Human Brain Mapping Background: The feeling of being addressed is the first step in a complex processing stream enabling successful social communication. Social impairments are a relevant characteristic of … More Paper accepted! Feeling addressed! The neural processing of social communicative cues in patients with major depression. Congratulations Anne!!!

Ridderbusch I.C., Yang, Y., Weber, H., Reif, A., Herterich, S., Ströhle, A., Pfleiderer, B., Arolt, V., Wittchen, H.-U., Lueken, U., Kircher, T., & Straube, B. (accepted). Neural correlates of NOS1 ex1f-VNTR allelic variation in panic disorder and agoraphobia during fear conditioning and extinction in fMRI. NeuroImage: Clinical IF: 3.943 Abstract: Neuronal nitric oxide synthase (NOS-I) … More Paper accepted!!! Neural correlates of NOS1 ex1f-VNTR allelic variation in panic disorder and agoraphobia during fear conditioning and extinction in fMRI. Congratulations Isabelle

04/2020 – 04/2022: Funding by Universitätsklinikum Gießen und Marburg GmbH. Cooperation contract, Title: Development and neurobiological investigation of a social-cognitive intervention program to improve social dysfunction in schizophrenia. PI: Dr. Florian Bitsch, Dr. Yifei He, & Prof. Dr. Benjamin Straube